Coercing credentials and accessing foreign computer systems with them is already illegal. So why forbidding it again?
If your potential employer asks you for the password, tell him, that you would infringe on Facebook's Terms and Condition, and if he succeeds, he is infringing on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
When Bill Gates made that comment, Linux was already the most deployed HTTP server plattform, in our datacenter there were lots of customers running large deployments of 1 HU linux servers and Linux was encroaching the embedded market with lots of appliances being built on top of a linux base installation.
Either it stays at two, if Barack Obama wins, or it goes up to three, if one of the Republican candidates win. And if I have to choose, I would choose the lesser evil and go with Barack Obama.
It looks to me as if the U.S. becomes more and more ungovernmentable, because there are fractures within their own population, and each part doesn't even talk to, moreso understand the problems of the other parts anymore. There are nearly disjunct environments within the U.S., and each of them will fight foot and nail to sabotage the other environment to get anything done. It has become more so much important to disrupt the other groups that any thought to accomplish something for your own group gets suspicious because -- oh what a catastrophe! -- any other group could profit from it.
If the U.S. doesn't overcome this desire to wreck havoc to any other people even if it costs your own, it will sabotage itself into oblivion. The fear anyone else than yourself could get a benefit from your tax dollars is so overwhelming that you will rather cut your own feet than let it happen.
In most modern countries its illegal to trade while insolvent.
Not so. In most countries I know of, a court appointed administrator is then responsible for the company, and it's up to him to reach an agreement with the creditors how to proceed. The main reason behind the whole insolvency procedure is to avoid conflicts with and between the creditors. They should be able to recoup as much as possible of the outstanding debt, and their demands against the debitor are ranked in a law defined order. If the counsil of creditors finds that reorganizing and getting on with the business is in their best interests, the insolvent business will carry on with the trade, sometimes firming as "in insolvency" or "in liquidation" to warn potential customers and suppliers.
Let it be a lesson to those people electing someone on a "tough on crime" ticket (which in turn means: free reign for the police to do as it likes.) They pay with their tax money for their mistake.
Actually, Santa Claus (Nikolaos of Myra) comes from the small town of Myra (today: Demre) in Anatolia, and he is buried in the Cathedral of Bari, Italy.
The latest statistics are: 40% of the Republicans, 37% of the Democrats and 20% of the Indepents watch Fox News regularly. So even 60% of the Republicans know better.
The "people actually going to elections" part ist not to be underestimated - in the states of former eastern Germany voter turnout is hovering at about 50%, sometimes even lower. So 80% of the voting people are actually 40% of the people giving their vote - and therefore the minority:)
It just means that 50% of the electorate don't care about the next government. If they are sitting and ranting how much better it was in the GDR, who cares? They actually don't want the communist dictatorship back urgently enough to do something about it. People who don't vote, vote for the majority. People who are ranting without going to vote when they can don't deserve it any better.
I grew up in Eastern Germany, and I know exactly what you are talking about from personal experience. My family was not completely aligned with the dictated mainstream, and so we got snags thrown in our way all the time.
But if they actually want the GDR back, why does the Linke party just scores around 20% of the votes there, matching very well the percentage of the membership in the SED of the adult population before 1989? That means that 80% of the people actually going to elections don't want the communist dictatorship back.
No. Not being able to buy a western car, and not being able to fly to a tropic vacation location were enough to overthrow the former GDR. There were three main topics in the 1989 turnover: freedom of travel, west german money, and better environmental protection. They got all three of them, and they like it.
But why should the gene be patented? The patent seeker in question didn't invent the gene, nor did he invent the way it expresses into proteins, nor did he invented the proteins synthesized. Someone discovered what role the gene plays in the metabolism, but that's a discovery, not an invention.
Maglevs comes to mind - you only once load the magnets along the track, and then they will keep the magnetic field forever. Imagine roadrails along the interstates which keep the cars on track. Also the hover car will suddenly be feasible - as soon as the car moves forward, induction will load the magnets inside the car and let it hover along the supra conducting magnets in the road. You can see the effect already today at some science shows where they have supraconducting maglevs. Zero friction against the track, just air friction left. One can imagine subways with supracontucting tracks, which work with air pressure along the tubes.
Super strong magnets can be build, which you once load with electricity and which then keep the magnetism forever. Construction could get rid of glue and screws, just put the elements together, load the magnets once, and they will keep everything in shape. You could lock your house with magnetic bars, which once locked, keep tight until you unload the electricity from the bars and they open again.
You could store electricity in giant coils instead of chemical cells, making loading and unloading the electricity much faster, and enabling lots of non-constant electricity creators like windwheels and solar panels to work within a giant grid and finally overcome the problem of the electric base load.
Here again, the creativity comes into play. Even if you develop an encoding scheme to encode all music sheets bijective into sequences of digits, and each of those sequences can be found in pi, there is still some information missing to identify said sub-sequence within pi.
And this information is the number of the starting digit. This number is non-random, it is not a "natural" number (e.g. can't be derived from other basic numbers like pi or e). So I would guess (IANAL), that this number is copyrightable, as there is much creativity necessary to find that special number.
Hm. Can't say that about the company I am working for. Their main product lines base on Linux, the additional application servers are either based on Windows Server or Linux, depending on the particular developer group. And this is a $2.5 billion per year revenue company we are talking about.
This collides definitely with the terms "liberal" and "conservative" for instance in Germany. Here, conservativism means "no experiments", keeping the structure in society as close as possible to a perceived christian-catholic ideal, even if it means that a "working husband, homebound wife" family is heavily subsided by the government, while alternate attitudes to life and society are strongly disencouraged. A "small government" approach is frowned upon, and "there ought to be a law" (and a police to execute the law) is a common idea. "Liberal" splits in several directions, there are the economic liberals, which are a low tax, reduced regulation group, there are the social liberals, for whom equal chances for everyone is most important, and which thus are for instance supporting a strong education sector and for which all ideas how to lead ones life are at first equal, and should prevail on their own merits, and then there are the national-liberals, who think that to support the local economy, protective measures and tariffs again foreign enterprises and workers are the right way to go.
The question is, how much of your own creativity is in the selection of the number sequence you base your music on. Pi is a quite canonical choice, so there is not much creativity in it. Creativity can be put into the rules that convert pi into an actual music sheet, and this still can be copyrightable. But just because you used pi, you cannot claim copyright infringment against someone else who used pi too.
That's why countries with a proportional voting system often have "single issue" parties, like greens, social democrats, christian conservatives, liberals (they would be called libertarians in the U.S.), which then have to negotiate a coalition to get a majority in parlament. Thus you can vote for whatever issue you consider most important to you, and if you think the schools in your district are bad, in the next district elections you will vote for social democrats, and if you think the taxes are too high, you will vote liberal (libertarian for the U.S.) in the next country wide elections.
But that's the point of having political parties! They are out to serve their own agenda, and if enough people feel served by this agenda too, they will elect them. If you don't feel their agenda fits your goals, then don't elect them.
Don't worry, Europe has record breaking cold so they can say it over there.
Don't worry, Europe had a few cold days in an on average pretty mild winter.
That means, that despite the record breaking cold at some times the winter was warmer than on average - how high above average all the other days need to be for that?
Of course the earth has existed through all those massive changes. And we call those points in the past, where those massive changes happened, "extinction events" for some reason. Yes, the earth will make it through the next, man-made change too. Yes, the biosphere as a whole will make it through. But there is some doubt that mankind and especially the current civilisation will make it through. It's not about "saving the earth", it's about saving us.
If it's a thread to every major economic player, then in terms of competition, it levels the playing field, right? Somehow it sounds to me as if we just go forward in playing the big final game despite the fact that both teams went down with fever and cough, diarrhoe and headaches. But because the final game is so important for the season, we call the people warning about the teams being sick "infection alarmists".
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Coercing credentials and accessing foreign computer systems with them is already illegal. So why forbidding it again?
If your potential employer asks you for the password, tell him, that you would infringe on Facebook's Terms and Condition, and if he succeeds, he is infringing on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
When Bill Gates made that comment, Linux was already the most deployed HTTP server plattform, in our datacenter there were lots of customers running large deployments of 1 HU linux servers and Linux was encroaching the embedded market with lots of appliances being built on top of a linux base installation.
Either it stays at two, if Barack Obama wins, or it goes up to three, if one of the Republican candidates win. And if I have to choose, I would choose the lesser evil and go with Barack Obama.
It looks to me as if the U.S. becomes more and more ungovernmentable, because there are fractures within their own population, and each part doesn't even talk to, moreso understand the problems of the other parts anymore. There are nearly disjunct environments within the U.S., and each of them will fight foot and nail to sabotage the other environment to get anything done. It has become more so much important to disrupt the other groups that any thought to accomplish something for your own group gets suspicious because -- oh what a catastrophe! -- any other group could profit from it.
If the U.S. doesn't overcome this desire to wreck havoc to any other people even if it costs your own, it will sabotage itself into oblivion. The fear anyone else than yourself could get a benefit from your tax dollars is so overwhelming that you will rather cut your own feet than let it happen.
So tell me what you are administering right now, so I can avoid it due to it becoming first obsolete and then nasty :)
In most modern countries its illegal to trade while insolvent.
Not so. In most countries I know of, a court appointed administrator is then responsible for the company, and it's up to him to reach an agreement with the creditors how to proceed. The main reason behind the whole insolvency procedure is to avoid conflicts with and between the creditors. They should be able to recoup as much as possible of the outstanding debt, and their demands against the debitor are ranked in a law defined order. If the counsil of creditors finds that reorganizing and getting on with the business is in their best interests, the insolvent business will carry on with the trade, sometimes firming as "in insolvency" or "in liquidation" to warn potential customers and suppliers.
Let it be a lesson to those people electing someone on a "tough on crime" ticket (which in turn means: free reign for the police to do as it likes.) They pay with their tax money for their mistake.
Actually, Santa Claus (Nikolaos of Myra) comes from the small town of Myra (today: Demre) in Anatolia, and he is buried in the Cathedral of Bari, Italy.
The latest statistics are: 40% of the Republicans, 37% of the Democrats and 20% of the Indepents watch Fox News regularly. So even 60% of the Republicans know better.
Interesting Google Translate :)
(Kinder, das Wort des Tages: Schadenfreudegasmus.
Was für ein Brüller! Ich werde es zu meinem Wortschatz Deutsch packen.)
The "people actually going to elections" part ist not to be underestimated - in the states of former eastern Germany voter turnout is hovering at about 50%, sometimes even lower. So 80% of the voting people are actually 40% of the people giving their vote - and therefore the minority :)
It just means that 50% of the electorate don't care about the next government. If they are sitting and ranting how much better it was in the GDR, who cares? They actually don't want the communist dictatorship back urgently enough to do something about it.
People who don't vote, vote for the majority. People who are ranting without going to vote when they can don't deserve it any better.
I grew up in Eastern Germany, and I know exactly what you are talking about from personal experience. My family was not completely aligned with the dictated mainstream, and so we got snags thrown in our way all the time.
But if they actually want the GDR back, why does the Linke party just scores around 20% of the votes there, matching very well the percentage of the membership in the SED of the adult population before 1989? That means that 80% of the people actually going to elections don't want the communist dictatorship back.
No. Not being able to buy a western car, and not being able to fly to a tropic vacation location were enough to overthrow the former GDR. There were three main topics in the 1989 turnover: freedom of travel, west german money, and better environmental protection. They got all three of them, and they like it.
But why should the gene be patented? The patent seeker in question didn't invent the gene, nor did he invent the way it expresses into proteins, nor did he invented the proteins synthesized. Someone discovered what role the gene plays in the metabolism, but that's a discovery, not an invention.
As you can see in this video, it works already with liquid nitrogen, much higher as helium cooled supra conduction.
Maglevs comes to mind - you only once load the magnets along the track, and then they will keep the magnetic field forever.
Imagine roadrails along the interstates which keep the cars on track. Also the hover car will suddenly be feasible - as soon as the car moves forward, induction will load the magnets inside the car and let it hover along the supra conducting magnets in the road. You can see the effect already today at some science shows where they have supraconducting maglevs. Zero friction against the track, just air friction left. One can imagine subways with supracontucting tracks, which work with air pressure along the tubes.
Super strong magnets can be build, which you once load with electricity and which then keep the magnetism forever. Construction could get rid of glue and screws, just put the elements together, load the magnets once, and they will keep everything in shape. You could lock your house with magnetic bars, which once locked, keep tight until you unload the electricity from the bars and they open again.
You could store electricity in giant coils instead of chemical cells, making loading and unloading the electricity much faster, and enabling lots of non-constant electricity creators like windwheels and solar panels to work within a giant grid and finally overcome the problem of the electric base load.
Here again, the creativity comes into play. Even if you develop an encoding scheme to encode all music sheets bijective into sequences of digits, and each of those sequences can be found in pi, there is still some information missing to identify said sub-sequence within pi.
And this information is the number of the starting digit. This number is non-random, it is not a "natural" number (e.g. can't be derived from other basic numbers like pi or e). So I would guess (IANAL), that this number is copyrightable, as there is much creativity necessary to find that special number.
Hm. Can't say that about the company I am working for. Their main product lines base on Linux, the additional application servers are either based on Windows Server or Linux, depending on the particular developer group. And this is a $2.5 billion per year revenue company we are talking about.
This collides definitely with the terms "liberal" and "conservative" for instance in Germany.
Here, conservativism means "no experiments", keeping the structure in society as close as possible to a perceived christian-catholic ideal, even if it means that a "working husband, homebound wife" family is heavily subsided by the government, while alternate attitudes to life and society are strongly disencouraged. A "small government" approach is frowned upon, and "there ought to be a law" (and a police to execute the law) is a common idea.
"Liberal" splits in several directions, there are the economic liberals, which are a low tax, reduced regulation group, there are the social liberals, for whom equal chances for everyone is most important, and which thus are for instance supporting a strong education sector and for which all ideas how to lead ones life are at first equal, and should prevail on their own merits, and then there are the national-liberals, who think that to support the local economy, protective measures and tariffs again foreign enterprises and workers are the right way to go.
The question is, how much of your own creativity is in the selection of the number sequence you base your music on.
Pi is a quite canonical choice, so there is not much creativity in it. Creativity can be put into the rules that convert pi into an actual music sheet, and this still can be copyrightable. But just because you used pi, you cannot claim copyright infringment against someone else who used pi too.
That's why countries with a proportional voting system often have "single issue" parties, like greens, social democrats, christian conservatives, liberals (they would be called libertarians in the U.S.), which then have to negotiate a coalition to get a majority in parlament. Thus you can vote for whatever issue you consider most important to you, and if you think the schools in your district are bad, in the next district elections you will vote for social democrats, and if you think the taxes are too high, you will vote liberal (libertarian for the U.S.) in the next country wide elections.
But that's the point of having political parties! They are out to serve their own agenda, and if enough people feel served by this agenda too, they will elect them. If you don't feel their agenda fits your goals, then don't elect them.
Instead of ranting, maybe some democracy 101?
Don't worry, Europe has record breaking cold so they can say it over there.
Don't worry, Europe had a few cold days in an on average pretty mild winter.
That means, that despite the record breaking cold at some times the winter was warmer than on average - how high above average all the other days need to be for that?
Of course the earth has existed through all those massive changes. And we call those points in the past, where those massive changes happened, "extinction events" for some reason. Yes, the earth will make it through the next, man-made change too. Yes, the biosphere as a whole will make it through. But there is some doubt that mankind and especially the current civilisation will make it through. It's not about "saving the earth", it's about saving us.
If it's a thread to every major economic player, then in terms of competition, it levels the playing field, right? Somehow it sounds to me as if we just go forward in playing the big final game despite the fact that both teams went down with fever and cough, diarrhoe and headaches. But because the final game is so important for the season, we call the people warning about the teams being sick "infection alarmists".